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I FLY NET FOR HORSES. No. 300,040. Patented June 10, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT' OFFICE.

RALPH BROWNSON, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO PETER R. L. HARDEI TBERGH, OF SAME PLACE.

FLY-NET FOR HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,040, dated June 10, 1884.

' 3 Application filed January 21, 1884. (No model.)

Z0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RALPH BROWNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Nets for Horses, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being also had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of a net illustrating its construction. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the leather links detached and spread open; and Fig.- 3 is a similar view of the same closed up, or as it appears after being out from the body of the leather.

This invention consists in cutting a series of links, A, of leather into the form shown in Fig. 3, with a slit, (1, through the center, T- shaped heads, I), on one end, perforations c on the other end, and with T-heads d and perforations con and through opposite sides of themain part of the link A, midway between the heads and perforations c, and then forcing the T-heads b of one set of links through the perforations c in another set of links, and forcing the T-heads d of one set through the perforations e of the next set, as shown, thereby producing a web or net of any required size or form.

In forming the web a series of links are joined together side by side by their T- heads d and perforations e, and then other links connected to them in regular order by forcing the T-heads b d of one set through the perforations c e of the adjoining sets, respectively, as shown in Fig. 1. The sizes of the links may be varied as desired, or as circumstances or the use to which the web is to be put may require. The links will be out by suitable dies, from leather or other suitable material, of such proportions as to insure equal strength to all parts. By thisvery simple arrangement I produce a very strong, cheap, and durable net, and which may be constructed ennet.

tirely from small scraps of otherwise useless leather. Strings B will be usually attached to the lower rows of links on each side, to hang down below the body and legs of the horse, as in the ordinary string fly-net.

By this means I produce a net combining all the advantages of the lattice form of the ordinary cord-nets with the durablity and strength of the leather net. Suitable crupper and headstall -fastening straps will be connected to the links at the proper places on the Another advantage gained by this manner of constructing the net is that all the parts, including the above-mentioned crup per and headstall-fastening straps, may be looped into the links without sewing, riveting, or otherwise fastening Any suitable means may be used to force the T-heads on the links through the perforations of the adjoining links; but Lhave found that by passing a metal loop upward through the perforations and inserting the T- head into it and drawing it downward again, the T- head is easily and quickly drawn through the perforations.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim is- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a web or net for horses, constructed of separate interlocked links of leather, of the form substantially as hereinbefore shown and described.

2. The link A, having the slit a, T-heads b d, and perforations 0 e, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. g

3. A web or net constructed of separate links A, having T- heads I) d and perforations c e, in combination with strings B, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit 

